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Or there are the more hyperspecific suggestions, like this one from a Neptunes knockoff: “a sample of rick james saying ‘shake ya tailfeatha’ would fit on this.”
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2018
Although his restrained fall-winter designs featured darker hues than normal, there were rick pickings for anyone who likes a bright wardrobe.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
It looked like Bassong might have got away with his rick as Rooney got the ball caught under his feet before he could pull the trigger.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2016
There’s rick material to be mined in comedy when cultures, on the surface, do not mix.
From Forbes ● Sep. 16, 2013
When the wagon was loaded, it was drawn to Sir Ector’s rick and pitched to him.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Down in the tunnels, workers sorted the remains of the dead, filing them by bones into space-efficient ricks and stacks.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019
Burnley’s welcome back to the Premier League ends in encouraging defeat, while Monday Night Football ends an hour later with no obvious ricks or gaffes.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2014
In Martinsburg, W. Va., a heifer dropped down between two ricks of straw and subsisted seven weeks without water.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tempo is high, the ricks are ticking and the song is a shaggy Pekinese.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, blocks of ice came down from the mountain streams above, and swept along bridges, and hay ricks, and drift wood with them, just as happened once, you may remember, when Susan was alive.
From Daisy; or, The Fairy Spectacles by Caroline Snowden Guild
